The House is supposed to have their final vote on the bill this Saturday, probably sometime late at night. Should I go watch it from the public gallery? Y/N?
you should watch it, but it wont happen if the CBO does not release the budget. I'll just put it this way, make sure you bring something to throw at the individuals who vote no....
It also won't happen if Pelosi does not have the votes, and it may well be, that she won't.
The CBO numbers are missing, because the CBO needs to show the reconciliation bill will cut the deficit by 2 billion dollars from the Senate Bill (that is the only way to trigger the reconciliation process in the Senate), and that is tough to do, when the reconciliation bill has a lot more new and exciting ways to spend money. So the Dems dump in the student loan bill that is supposed to save money because the government can lend money cheaper (screw the default risk and the interest cost) and that does not appear as a cost due to the magic of CBO accounting, but it is not enough, so behind closed doors, the Dems are trying to find some additional ways to try to save money vis a vis the CBO's bizarre accounting rules. Maybe they will dump some more bills into the hopper. Stay tuned.
